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Paul Martin's conversion
In our election of a year ago, the voter turnout of 61 per cent was the lowest in a century. The state of our democracy is actually a good deal more parlous. We measure turnout as a percentage of those on the electoral list rather than, as in the U.S., as a percentage of all those eligible to vote. By American standards, which we always assume we are superior to, our turnout was only 55 per cent, barely better than their most recent presidential election turnout of 51 per cent.
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Paul Martin's conversion
In our election of a year ago, the voter turnout of 61 per cent was the lowest in a century. The state of our democracy is actually a good deal more parlous. We measure turnout as a percentage of those on the electoral list rather than, as in the U.S., as a percentage of all those eligible to vote. By American standards, which we always assume we are superior to, our turnout was only 55 per cent, barely better than their most recent presidential election turnout of 51 per cent.
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